abruption
/uh-bruhp-shuhn/US // əˈbrʌp ʃən //UK // (əˈbrʌpʃən) //
流产,脱落,堕胎,失败
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a sudden breaking off.
Examples
Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."
The comma is the note of connection and continuity of sentences; the period is the note of abruption and disjunction.
By this abruption, posterity lost more instruction than delight.
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